London Review Bookshop Podcast

In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.... Read more

At the New School in New York, where Simon Critchley teaches, ‘Critchley on Tragedy’ is one of the most consistently ove... Read more

In her first book Dressed (Jonathan Cape), Shahidha Bari explores the hidden memories, meanings and ideas which are wrap... Read more

Man Booker International-shortlisted novelist Mathias Enard, 'the most brazenly lapel-grabbing French author since Miche... Read more

Édouard Louis, one of France’s most acclaimed young writers, shot to international fame with his first novel, the semi-a... Read more

When asked about the meaning of the late string quartets Beethoven famously remarked 'Oh those are not for you, they are... Read more

Leïla Slimani was the first Moroccan woman to win France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt for her novel Lullaby. Her latest b... Read more

‘I think to be a mother for five minutes is to know that the world is unjust, and that our hearts are impure.’ In her la... Read more

After the death of her partner of thirty-two years, Lisa Appignanesi was thrust into a state striated by rage and supers... Read more

New York's 92nd Street Y has been a home to the voices of literature for 80 years, hosting in its famed Reading Series t... Read more

New York's 92nd Street Y has been a home to the voices of literature for 80 years, hosting in its famed Reading Series t... Read more

Elena Poniatowska’s work, in both fiction and journalism, has always been devoted to giving a voice to the voiceless, th... Read more

By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside, but two years a... Read more

One of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, Susan Sontag’s writing – on art and politics, feminism and homosexua... Read more

Anne Enright’s latest novel Actress (Cape) tells the story of the relationship between Irish theatre legend Katherine O'... Read more

Writer and film-maker Jonathan Meades joined us at the Bookshop to present and discuss *Pedigree Mongrel* (Test Centre),... Read more

Nicola Barker discusses T.S. Eliot, with reference to his appearances at New York’s 92nd Street Y, with the 92Y’s Readin... Read more

Things fall apart when empires crumble. Rediscovery of past glories is attempted again and again, until eventually those... Read more

After the disintegration of the most significant relationship of his life, the demons Luke Turner has been battling sinc... Read more

An evening of discussion and poetry readings with poets Kayo Chingonyi, Bhanu Kapil, Ilya Kaminsky and New York Times bo... Read more